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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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Short forms of American names?
like Hubert they would call Hub or Fred for Alfred and so on
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Yes, and some names have more than one nickname: William: Bill, Billy, Will, ***** Elizabeth: Beth, Liz, Lizzy, Lizbeth
- Yes, and some names have more than one nickname: William: Bill, Billy, Will, ***** Elizabeth: Beth, Liz, Lizzy, Lizbeth
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Yes, and some names have more than one nickname:
William: Bill, Billy, Will, *****
Elizabeth: Beth, Liz, Lizzy, Lizbeth
William: Bill, Billy, Will, *****
Elizabeth: Beth, Liz, Lizzy, Lizbeth
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Bert for Hubert.
Bert can stand for these names: Adelbert, Albert, Delbert, Egbert, Gilbert, Hubert, Herbert
Alfred can have these: Al, Alf, Alfy, Fred.
Check this book, which discusses the same phenomenon: English Prosodic Morphology by Sabine Lappe.
I got that answer from the same book.
Bert can stand for these names: Adelbert, Albert, Delbert, Egbert, Gilbert, Hubert, Herbert
Alfred can have these: Al, Alf, Alfy, Fred.
Check this book, which discusses the same phenomenon: English Prosodic Morphology by Sabine Lappe.
I got that answer from the same book.
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